Database of Genealogies in Korea (朝鮮族譜データベース)

Access here. Developed at the University of Tokyo, this database provides digitized images of about 640 Korean genealogies.

PAIR – Portal to Asian Internet Resources

Access here.

e-Asia Digital Library (U. of Oregon)

e-Asia Digital Library (U. of Oregon). Developed by the University of Oregon Library, the e-Asia project is “building a collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources”. It currently holds over 4,000 items. Books and films are probably the most important resources in e-Asia, but some maps, images, and audios are [...]

Historical Korean Figures 한국 역대인물 종합정보 시스템

Historical Korean Figures 한국 역대인물 종합정보 시스템. Hosted at the Academy of Korean Studies, this is a comprehensive biographical database of more than 16,000 Korean figures. What do you think of this resource?

Waseda Japanese & Chinese Classics (早稲田大学古典籍総合データベース)

Waseda Japanese & Chinese Classics (古典籍総合データベース). This resource is developed by Waseda University. “このデータベースは、早稲田大学図書館が所蔵する古典籍について、その書誌情報と関連研究資料、さらには全文の画像を広く一般に公開しようとするものです。総数は約30万冊、国宝２件、重要文化財５件を含むあらゆる分野の資料を、具体的詳細な書誌情報と、鮮明なカラー画像でご覧いただけます。” What do you think of this resource?

Japanese Historical Texts Initiative (JHTI)

Japanese Historical Texts Initiative (JHTI). A resource of important Japanese historical documents and their English translations hosted at Berkeley,the “Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is a rapidly expanding database made up of historical texts dating back more than 1200 years. The original version of every paragraph in every text is cross-tagged with its English translation, [...]

Charles Muller’s Resources for East Asian Language and Thought

Access here. Developed by Charles Muller, this site includes a variety of databases: Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, CJKV-English Dictionary, The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, translations of Confucian and Buddhist texts, and other indexes and bibliographies.

Columbia University Digital Collections on East Asia

The Columbia University Library Digital Collections include: Bunraku Collection Gallery Chinese Paper Gods Ling long Women’s Magazine

WorldCat.org

WorldCat.org. Developed by OCLC, WorldCat is the world’s largest union catalog. A great feature of WorldCat is that it allows a user to search in the original Asian scripts, in addition to romanization, which makes it a great tool for finding books in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. A user can search by author, title, keywords, [...]

MCLC Resource Center

Access here. “This resource center contains, among other things, bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture and is maintained by Kirk A. Denton.”